Got some work done on the big oak tree and an Elm the neighbor so graciously dropped on my fence.... He is luck he is still with us the way he felled this sucker. He cut it about chin high and it was still on the stump when I got down there. I yanked it off the stump with the truck and told him I would take it from there.... this oak is a beast , some 24” branches !! Forgot how heavy green oak is too. I am beat.
What kind of logic calls for it to be cut so high? He sounds like an accident in waiting but thankfully it turned out okay. Nice looking wood, both of them.
I didn’t ask and he didn’t say. Only thing I can assume is he was concerned about there being barbed wire in it being in a fence line ?
I took down a decent sized Norway maple last spring that had a chain link fence completely grown into the bottom 4'. The fence had been cut down years ago, and rhe only visible sign that it was inside the tree was the checkerboard pattern of the fence in the sapwood/bark, it had been completely grown-over. I cut it above the fence and ended up hitting the fence on my flush cut at the very base (knowing it would happen), that whole 4' log went to a compost pile to rot away.
Making progress there MKD! Looks like a good days work. That oak is heavy stuff. That and it takes seemingly forever to dry makes it not one of my favorites.
Lots of btus in that one. Always like to see flat ground and not a lot of brush to deal with. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
Well , pictures are deceiving. That oak is on a bit of a grade and I worked on the brush most of the day. Elm is on flat but we spent 4 hours hauling brush Sunday.
